Gunboat balance question.

[Markam]

I can answer this a little, the numbers in the shiparch relating to agility can be confusing, at a glance you can be fooled into thinking the wrong thing. While the jury is still out on if its unbalanced or not, the agility listed is actually not high at all, it's very different from most gunboats because it is actually the slowest of all gunboats, not the fastest.

you calculate agility by dividing the Steering Torque/Angular drag to determine turn speed, then Steering Torque/Rotation inertia for the speed at which the ship changes direction or 'dodging' (all explained by a post by mjolnir). I'm no expert at this, but I think you end up with;

KE
0.417 0.417 0.4295 2 2 2.4
Liberty gunboat
0.66 0.66 0.57 3.2 3.2 3.2

higher is better of course, the last three numbers are the reactions and the first three are pure xyz axis turning.

I'll say that this was actually brought up recently, i'm not sure exactly what is wrong with the KE, it has been able to turn on faster gunboats, but I sort of think that this is possible with most heavy gunboats to an extent (or I guess, they'd stand no chance), the chainfiring razors bit, it can fire 3 for just under half its core, a kusari missile is heavily spammable (it was balanced to the small kusari GB..). A big boon to it would be the central placing of 3 of its turrets, which is a very effective spot to put 3 razors. The 450 botts is pretty damned high (infocard says 350, its wrong), I think this was something to do with it having transport turning, and so.. botts? Well, either way I fear it has not been put to a lot of tests, and its a generic ship which hasnt got any clear enemies. I believe it will be looked at after a chain of incidents regarding it, not impossible for it to be bugged somewhere I suppose.